Interrelated Activities Research Articles

Using Contemplative Activities in Course Design to Impart Caring Values.

Nurse educators may find it difficult to teach crucial content while imparting the caring values and identity of the nurse that Jean Watson described. Engaging with caring in learning requires moving beyond traditional formats that do not engage emotional/affective contemplation in application. A mini course was designed to expose undergraduates to the principles and personal application of the 10 Caritas Processes® using three interrelated contemplative activities. Student comments and journals are presented as evidence of understanding the purpose of caring values and how to begin to apply them in practice. Contemplative activities aid in developing caring values necessary for practice. Caring is important for sustained practice and research is needed regarding the effectiveness of contemplative methods in imparting caring values, forming professional identity, and long-term effect on nursing practice. [J Nurs Educ. 2024;63(X):XXX-XXX.].

The Interrater Reliability of a Coding System for Measuring Mental Health Professionals’ Decisions and Actions

ABSTRACT Objective The clinical decisions and actions of evidence-based practice in psychology (EBPP) are largely underspecified and poorly understood, in part due to the lack of measurement methods. We tested the reliability of a behavioral coding system that characterizes a flow of interrelated activities that includes problem detection and prioritization, intervention selection and implementation, and review of intervention integrity and impact. Method The context included two publicly funded youth mental health service organizations located in geographically distinct and underresourced communities in the U.S. where service inequities are common. We sampled 84 digitally recorded and transcribed supervision events that included a sample of professionals who were mostly women (93.02%) and BIPOC (86.04%) whose self-reported race/ethnicity matched the youth populations they served. We coded these events for activities (e.g., considering) and their predicate content (i.e., problems or practices) and examined reliability of these codes applied to excerpts (i.e., small contiguous units of dialogue) as well as to complete events. Results Interrater reliability estimates showed that, overall, coders reliably rated the occurrence and extensiveness of activities and content. Excerpt coding was generally more reliable than event coding. However, mathematical aggregation of excerpt coding offered a superior method for estimating event codes reliably, reducing individual subjectivity while providing event level synthesis of activities that are grounded in excerpt level details. Conclusions The assessment of clinical decisions and actions has the potential to unpack the black box of EBPP, with different methods best suited to different research questions and resource considerations.

Measuring 24-h use of time in people with a diabetes-related foot ulcer: A feasibility study.

Physical activity (PA), sleep and sedentary time are now recognised as mutually exclusive and exhaustive parts of the 24-h day-if PA decreases, time spent sleeping, being sedentary or both must increase so that all components equate to 24h. Recent advances in time-use epidemiology suggest that we should not consider time-use domains (PA, sleep and sedentary time) in isolation from each other, but in terms of a composition-the mix of time-use domains across the 24-h day. While interrelated daily activities are known to be important in the management of diabetes mellitus, few studies have investigated the interrelated daily activities in people with an active diabetes-related foot ulcer (DFU) and their impact on important outcomes such as wound severity, blood glucose control and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). This feasibility study aims to determine the acceptability and practicality of measuring 24-h use of time data in people with a DFU and its associations on important outcome measures for this population. Participants wore a wrist-worn accelerometer for twoweeks and completed demographic and HRQoL questionnaires. Outcomes were participant engagement, reported levels of study burden and value and compositional data analysis as a methodological approach for evaluating 24-h use of time data. Twenty-six participants reported low levels of study burden and rated the study value highly. The protocol appears feasible in terms of recruitment (81%) and retention rate (86%). On average, participants were relatively sedentary spending 747, 172 and 18min in sedentary time, light physical activity and moderate-to-vigorous activity, respectively. Sleep appeared adequate with participants obtaining an average of 485min, but quality of sleep was notably poor with average sleep efficiency of 75%. Compositional data analysis was able to quantify the integrated associations of 24-h use of time with HRQoL. The protocol provides an acceptable method to collect 24-h use of time data in people with a DFU. Efforts to consider and analyse PA as part of a 24-h activity composition may provide holistic and realistic understandings of PA in this clinical population.

Penerapan Puspaga dalam Pencegahan Kekerasan pada Anak di Kelurahan Sidosermo, Kecamatan Wonocolo, Kota Surabaya

This research aims to find out how PUSPAGA is implemented to stop violence against children. Sidosermo Village is located in Wonocolo sub-district, Surabaya, Indonesia. The village is known for its PUSPAGA program, which is held in every RW Hall. This research uses a qualitative approach with descriptive methods. Based on the study, this research has referred to the public policy implementation model according to Van Metter and Van Horn, fulfilling six variables. During the PUSPAGA implementation program in Sidosermo Village, effective communication occurred between the various organizations involved, making it easier to coordinate interrelated activities throughout the implementation process. The Surabaya Department of Child Empowerment and Protection and Population Control and Family Planning (DP5A) and PUSPAGA collaborate with various departments and institutions according to the community's needs.

ВНЕДРЕНИЕ ТЕХНОЛОГИИ БЛОКЧЕЙН В СИСТЕМУ БУХГАЛТЕРСКОГО УЧЕТА ПРЕДПРИЯТИЯ

With the development of the digital economy, all areas of activity are undergoing transformational changes, and accounting is no exception. The integration of digital technologies has revolutionized traditional accounting practices, opening up unprecedented opportunities to improve efficiency, accuracy and strategic decision-making. Currently, there are a sufficient number of online services that allow you to maintain accounting records. One of the most promising and most adaptive is blockchain technology. An unprecedented level of transparency, a high level of security for financial transactions, automatic updating and the ability to integrate into a control system characterize blockchain technology as one of the most reliable and recommended for implementation in the accounting services of economic entities. The blockchain technology adoption process includes training and understanding, conducting a needs assessment, selecting the right blockchain platform, developing a proof of concept, establishing clear governance and standards, integrating with existing systems, pilot implementation, full-scale implementation and training, and continuous monitoring. and optimization. Each stage includes a set of interrelated activities that allow the implementation of blockchain technology. As a result of the stage-by-stage implementation of all the proposed measures, an effective accounting system is formed at the enterprise, accounting practices are optimized, operational information is provided to interested users in a timely manner for making strategic decisions, the integrity and accuracy of financial reporting is ensured, access to real-time data is facilitated, a more flexible and informed business environment, enterprise capabilities are expanded by increasing transparency, security and efficiency of financial transactions.

A Balancing Act of Leadership: The Practice of Shaping the Direction of a Project Portfolio

This article explores the practice of shaping the project portfolio direction through the lens of leadership. Focusing on a public setting, it uncovers three interrelated activities: developing ownership, networking, and de-personalizing. These activities can be accomplished through continuous balancing of substantive–symbolic and visible–subtle acts, institutional structures and their improvisations, and hierarchical and distributed leadership. The article contributes to (1) the project portfolio management literature by offering the concept of hybrid leadership and insights into the alignment of diverse stakeholder interests and worldviews, and (2) to the leadership literature by critiquing the leadership-as-practice movement and advancing explanations of the interplay between hierarchical and distributed leadership.

Design for dependability — State of the art and trends

This paper presents an overview of design for dependability as a process involving three distinct but interrelated activities: risk analysis, risk mitigation, and risk assessment. Although these activities have been the subject of numerous works, few of them address the issue of their integration into rigorous design flows. Moreover, most existing results focus on dependability for small-size safety-critical systems with specific static architectures. They cannot be applied to large systems, such as autonomous systems with dynamic heterogeneous architectures and AI components. The overwhelming complexity and lack of interpretability of AI present challenges to model-based techniques and require empirical approaches. Furthermore, it is impossible to cope with all potential risks at design time; run-time assurance techniques are necessary to cost-effectively achieve the desired degree of dependability. The paper synthesizes the state of the art showing particularly the impact of new trends stemming from the integration of AI components in design flows. It argues that these trends will have a profound impact on design methods and the level of dependability. It advocates the need for a new theoretical basis for dependability engineering that allows the integration of traditional model-based approaches and data-driven techniques in the search for trade-offs between efficiency and dependability.

Green HRM Practices in IndiaA Study on Selected Companies

Human beings are always related with phenomena of nature, and thereby in today’s concept everything needs to be managed in such a manner that our nature, the place of our sustainability remains in its best condition. The same flow has been felt in the concept of business and interrelated activities of business. The primary concern that remains for any business is management policies and above everything it is the human which needs to be directed in proper manner, so that the concerns of any business are protected. This paper presents the idea of managing the human resources, better known as Human Resource Management (HRM), which go with the concern of protecting the nature which is titled as Green HRM. The study briefly explains the concept of Green HRM and its impact on different companies through survey of Indian Literatures to finally emphasize over the prospect of Green HRM in organizational structure.

Optimalisasi Digital Marketing pada Komunitas Klinik Usaha Desa Kucur untuk Kemajuan Ekonomi Desa Kucur

The influence of attraction and social media presents several problems and benefits that will be discussed in this study. Social media is considered as one of the best ways for entrepreneurs to promote their products to attract potential customers. The increasing number of social media users makes entrepreneurs use social media influencers as one of the supporting elements in marketing their products. This study aims to analyze the effect of social network appeal on the sales level of Hanania Milk Pie products. This research methodology uses document reviews, interviews, and Instagram social media data insights that can be taken into consideration by food industry entrepreneurs. This research results in that food souvenir products can optimize digital marketing to achieve promotion in several major cities within the country and outside with promotional costs that are much cheaper than promotional models using print media or electronic media so as to increase public trust and increase purchases. The current trend for millennials is entering globalization, changes in consumer behavior, mobility, and accessibility of information. The growth of digitalization has impacted both the consumer and producer sides of the transaction market. One of them is the ability to now buy, sell, market, order, and pay for products online. This research applies the literature study method. In this journal, a series of interrelated activities are carried out by collecting library data, reading, storing data, and managing data materials for research. Based on the results and discussion, it can be said that, in the face of rivalry in business development, business actors, both micro, small and medium enterprises, MSMEs, must take into account digital marketing as one of the strategies. To support this, the majority of MSMEs agreed on three metrics for digital marketing, namely: providing clear information to consumers, assisting MSMEs in expanding market reach, and making it easier to communicate with consumers to better fulfill customer demands.

Design of E-Monitoring Application for Construction Project Program Evaluation Website Based

A construction project is a series of interrelated activities to achieve certain goals (building/construction) within certain time, cost and quality limits. Rehabilitation and Reconstruction is one of the post-disaster disaster management projects. The success of a project can not only be seen from the completion time and final results of the project, but one important factor is the project progress report which is always monitored. E-monitoring is the supervision and monitoring of work processes through the use of information technology. In this research, the system development method used is the waterfall method and the system testing method uses black box testing. The monitoring and evaluation system for construction projects in rehabilitation and reconstruction at the Central Sulawesi Regional Settlement Infrastructure Center can display information about the progress of construction projects for rehabilitation and reconstruction at the Central Sulawesi Regional Settlement Infrastructure Center. This system can also speed up data searches, data processing and can process data

Decent pay for work as one of the important factors of material encouragement of civil servants

The article is devoted to the issue of remuneration of civil servants as one of the important factors of their material encouragement in civil service. The importance of the civil service, the main task of which is to effectively ensure the complex interrelated activities of employees aimed at the development and implementation of state policy and management decisions, the implementation of regulatory and service functions in the interests of society, is noted. It was noted that one of the strategic tasks is the reform of the civil service of Ukraine, one of the directions of which is the remuneration of civil servants. This is emphasized in the State Administration Reform Strategy of Ukraine for 2022-2025, approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine order dated July 21, 2021, one of the tasks of which is to carry out a comprehensive reform of the system of payment of civil servants. Therefore, taking into account modern challenges, new theoretical and practical approaches to solving problems related to remuneration, in particular the remuneration of civil servants as one of the important factors of their material stimulation in today's conditions, are proposed. A proposal was made, supporting other researchers in this field, in the process of reforming the remuneration of civil servants to regulate, firstly, the level of the salary of employees of the local, district, regional state administration or the central body of executive power in an equal amount, that is, it should be the same at all levels salary; secondly, additional incentive payments (allowances and bonuses) to civil servants; thirdly, means of motivating civil servants with additional social guarantees (for example, free annual preventive medical examination, sanatorium-resort treatment). It is noted that today the state is already taking certain steps in this direction. Thus, Prime Minister D. Shmyhal predicts the introduction of a new system of payment of civil servants from January 1, 2024. According to him, "the main goal of the civil service pay reform is justice and elimination of abuses. Changes in wages are aimed at reducing disparities and a fair approach to setting the wages of civil servants. The new system will strengthen the role of official salary and help eliminate abuses during the calculation of additional payments and bonuses.”

Peningkatan Pengetahuan Guru Bahasa Inggris SMP Kota Depok Terhadap Implementasi Asesmen Dalam Pembelajaran

Purpose – In March 2023, Master of English Education, Universitas Terbuka initiated a program of community service to improve the English teachers’ competencies This program is carried out to guide the English teachers who teach at junior high schools in Kota Depok to improve their competence and students’ achievements, as well as efforts to create a generation that has good competitiveness. Design/methodology/approach – The method used in this community service includes three stages of interrelated activities to ensure maximum achievement of results, namely: (1) needs assessment and communication regarding partners' willingness to participate in training; (2) delivering material using lecture and question and answer methods; (3) carry out practice according to the material provided. Findings – The outcome of this program is demonstrated by the improvement of teachers in creating test items, switching from questions based on text to questions of higher-order thinking skills questions. Originality/value – One element mentioned by the Supervisor of English teachers and the Head of Musyawarah Guru Mata Pelajaran (MGMP) for English subjects is the implementation of assessment. This program provides English teachers with some new knowledge, insights and perspectives about assessment in English language learning.

The 24-h activity cycle and cardiovascular outcomes: establishing biological plausibility using arterial stiffness as an intermediate outcome.

This review proposes a biologically plausible working model for the relationship between the 24-h activity cycle (24-HAC) and cardiovascular disease. The 24-HAC encompasses moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), light physical activity, sedentary behavior (SB), and sleep. MVPA confers the greatest relative cardioprotective effect, when considering MVPA represents just 2% of the day if physical activity guidelines (30 min/day) are met. While we have well-established guidelines for MVPA, those for the remaining activity behaviors are vague. The vague guidelines are attributable to our limited mechanistic understanding of the independent and additive effects of these behaviors on the cardiovascular system. Our proposed biological model places arterial stiffness, a measure of vascular aging, as the key intermediate outcome. Starting with prolonged exposure to SB or static standing, we propose that the reported transient increases in arterial stiffness are driven by a cascade of negative hemodynamic effects following venous pooling. The subsequent autonomic, metabolic, and hormonal changes further impair vascular function. Vascular dysfunction can be offset by using mechanistic-informed interruption strategies and by engaging in protective behaviors throughout the day. Physical activity, especially MVPA, can confer protection by chronically improving endothelial function and associated protective mechanisms. Conversely, poor sleep, especially in duration and quality, negatively affects hormonal, metabolic, autonomic, and hemodynamic variables that can confound the physiological responses to next-day activity behaviors. Our hope is that the proposed biologically plausible working model will assist in furthering our understanding of the effects of these complex, interrelated activity behaviors on the cardiovascular system.

A double-decomposition based parallel exact algorithm for the feedback length minimization problem.

Product development projects usually contain many interrelated activities with complex information dependences, which induce activity rework, project delay and cost overrun. To reduce negative impacts, scheduling interrelated activities in an appropriate sequence is an important issue for project managers. This study develops a double-decomposition based parallel branch-and-prune algorithm, to determine the optimal activity sequence that minimizes the total feedback length (FLMP). This algorithm decomposes FLMP from two perspectives, which enables the use of all available computing resources to solve subproblems concurrently. In addition, we propose a result-compression strategy and a hash-address strategy to enhance this algorithm. Experimental results indicate that our algorithm can find the optimal sequence for FLMP up to 27 activities within 1 h, and outperforms state of the art exact algorithms.

Enhanced Genetic and Imperialist Competitive Based Algorithms for Reducing Design Feedbacks in the Design Structure Matrix

Nowadays, finding an appropriate interrelated activities sequence in designing complex engineering products, leading to efficient product development, is known as a major concern for managers. Recently, a variety of efforts aim to help the design managers tackle this issue, and one of the most useful management tools among them is the sequencing analysis method in an activity-based design structure matrix (DSM). The sequencing analysis method is the process of reordering the DSM rows and columns to minimize the detrimental effects of feedback loops in the design process. Therefore, in this article, an enhanced imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA), an enhanced genetic algorithm (GA), and a hybrid ICA–GA method are presented to find an activity sequence in DSM with a minimum total feedback length, which is a proper criterion for diminishing the detrimental effects of the feedback loops. To this end, we have improved the ICA and GA methods utilizing two techniques: applying the operators dynamically and tuning the main parameters adaptively. Subsequently, some experiments are designed to evaluate the proposed methods’ performance in terms of the cost value, computational time, and convergence rate on a remote sensing satellite DSM as a case study and eight other DSMs. The performance results demonstrate the superiority of ICA over two other methods. Eventually, an exhaustive comparison with the four well-known methods involving Antares, efficient-simple GA, insertion-based heuristic, and insertion-based simulated annealing illustrates the superiority of the ICA in large-scale problems, yielding the best-known solution in a reasonable computational time.

Корпоративне навчання як новий бренд методичної служби в закладі загальної середньої освіти

Methodical work in a modern school is an integral system of interrelated activities based on the achievements of psychological and pedagogical science, advanced pedagogical experience and aimed at improving the professional skills of teachers, developing the creative potential of each teacher in particular and the entire teaching staff in order to increase the effectiveness of the educational process.
 The content of the article reveals the questiona new approach to the organization of methodological work, which is the most important link in the system of continuous training of members of the teaching staff and is aimed at enriching and developing the creative potential of teachers.
 Given the practical implementation of the tasks of the State National Program "Education (Ukraine of the XXI century)," the urgent task is to adapt teachers to educational requirements. An important role in ensuring the reform of education is played by the modernization of scientific and methodological work in an educational institution through the introduction of modern educational, management technologies, stimulating professional growth of personnel, increasing their professional skills, in particular; through the effective application of effective forms and methods of adult learning, tools, computer learning systems and information network interaction.
 A model of the system of organization of methodological work in the institution of general secondary education has been developed. It is determined that methodical work with pedagogical personnel occurs by differentiation of pedagogical potential and requires the presence (or formation) of information and technological competence among pedagogical workers, which is advisable to do through corporate training.
 Therefore, in the present (the emergence and dissemination of a large amount of information), a key feature of the system of methodological work with pedagogical personnel should be the ability to obtain the necessary skills in time to be able to meet immediate educational needs. The article determined that the most effective method in this case is corporate training. The priority of which is the acquisition of relevant knowledge, skills and abilities to increase the efficiency of any institution in general and institutions of general secondary education in particular.

People’s perspectives on heritage conservation and tourism development: a case study of Varanasi

The conservation of heritage and heritage-based tourism are interrelated activities in which the development in one can lead to the growth of the other and vice versa. In recent years, people have become increasingly aware of the importance of heritage and the necessity of its conservation. People’s knowledge and preservation of their roots and emotional attachments to traditions and places are beneficial for heritage conservation activities. Heritage places are also considered a growth point for the tourism industry that supports small- and medium-scale industries as well as numerous cottage industries. However, with the development of tourism and related industries in heritage areas, the local community may face difficulties in performing their day-to-day activities in the area. In many cases, local communities need to relocate and people must leave their residences due to the demand for tourism development. A case study of Varanasi City was conducted to obtain a detailed understanding of the impact of a recent tourism development programme (the Kashi Vishwanath Corridor Project) and people’s perception of it through a review of newspaper articles. It was found that people had mixed reactions regarding the development programme. The immediate residents of the area who were directly affected by the process in terms of emotional, economic and social loss were opposed to the project, while tourists and other residents of the city were pleased with the development activities. This paper attempts to identify the changes that occurred in the area due to the project and to capture people’s perspectives regarding the corridor project of Varanasi.

PERANCANGAN USULAN TATA LETAK FASILITAS PABRIK DI XYZ

A good layout ensures efficient material flow, short material transfer distances and minimal material handling costs so operators can work optimally. To deliver goods to the Shifting Lever line which is 23 meters away and takes 53 seconds and must pass through several departments that should not be related to material handling. The current layout is not good because the distance between the storage room and the production area is too far apart and results in a lot of wasted time delivering goods and even longer waiting times. Activity Relationship Chart (ARC) will be used in planning the linkages between each group of interrelated activities. And combined with the method for the Blocplan Algorithm to calculate the degree of closeness between each department. The total material handling displacement distance is calculated as 48,815 meters per month and 585,780 meters per year and causes a total OMH cost of IDR 12,545,455 per month and IDR 150,545,460 per year. and incur OMH costs of IDR 8,828,413 per month and IDR 105,940,956 per year so that the new layout analysis reduces the material handling mileage by 173,547 meters per year and OMH by IDR 44,604,504 per year, or 29.6% per year.

Developing a Reference Framework for Claim Management Office: A Multi-Method Approach of an International Construction Firm

A claim management office (CMO) is a new intra-organisation fit based on an organisational project management (OPM) approach and deals specifically with improving claim performance. However, CMOs are either misunderstood or often overlooked in construction companies, mainly due to ignorance of the OPM context but further exacerbated by a lack of real case study research on how to adopt CMOs in these organisations. To address this knowledge gap, this present study integrates organisational ambidexterity with X-inefficiency theory (due to organisation intra-firm irrational decisions when managing such claims) to generate a reference framework for the CMO by probing its implementation within an international construction firm. A multi-method approach, including a single case study (a firm which adopted a CMO) and internal and external expert panels, was used for sampling, data collection, analysis and validation of the framework. The reference framework provides new perspectives on how construction-related companies and practitioners can adopt a CMO structure, which enables them to improve claims performance by planning in three interrelated activities, viz. function-, process- and performance-based. Theoretically, findings also contribute to the X-inefficiency and organisational ambidexterity theories, specifically, how different influences among the reference framework’s elements lead to better organisational claim performance as a plausible roadmap for future work.

Building rural community disaster resilience in developing countries: insights from a Chinese NGO's Safe Rural Community Program.

As rural areas in developing countries are generally more vulnerable to disasters triggered by natural hazards than urban areas, it has become critical to strengthen rural community disaster resilience (CDR) to reduce the disaster risks. Using follow-up interviews, surveys, and secondary data, this study reviewed the "Safe Rural Community" (SRC) program implemented by One Foundation, a Chinese civilian NGO, after the 2013 Lushan earthquake in China. The study focused on five main key resilience elements; networks, infrastructure, institutions, capabilities, and culture. It was found that the SRC program successfully developed standardized, systematic, interrelated, and practical activities, such as local volunteer rescue teams, emergency supplies, disaster reduction training, community emergency plans, and regular emergency rescue drills. Third-party evaluations and a 2022 Lushan earthquake test revealed that this NGO-led, community-based, and team-oriented program had been effective. The SRC program in Lushan, therefore, provides some guidance on the development of effective CDR programs in rural communities in developing countries.